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Adobe’s new app helps credit creators and fight AI fakery ► The Verge ► 4/24/25

Adobe releases “created without generative AI” tag to label human-generated art ► Fast Company ► 4/24/25

Science sleuths flag hundreds of papers that use AI without disclosing it ► Nature ► 4/24/25

AI stole my words – then accused me of plagiarism ► The Bay State Banner ► 4/23/25

Collective license to ensure UK authors get paid for works used to train AI ► The Guardian ► 4/23/25

A call for transparency regarding AI generated books – joint statement ► European Writers’ Council ► 4/23/25

Get ready to write your book: 5 tips on becoming an author ► Poynter ► 4/23/25

Isabel Allende’s editor corrects “offensive” outdated references for new YA editions ► The Bookseller ► 4/23/25

Penguin Random House leads amicus brief in LGBTQ+ books case ► Publishing Perspectives ► 4/22/25

I found an entire book that was written about … me. It only got weirder from there ► Slate ► 4/22/25

Britain vs. America: a centuries-old grammatical battle ► Aunt Minnie Europe ► 4/22/25

Announcing the winners of the 2025 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction ► LitHub ► 4/21/25

The power of BookTok: Why TikTok’s book community is driving a new era in publishing ► Forbes ► 4/21/25

Circana’s Q1 US print report: romance, romantasy lead adult fiction ► Publishing Perspectives ► 4/21/25

AI regurgitating ideas, not telling something new: comic book writer-creator Jim Zub ► The Economic Times ► 4/21/25

With “AI slop” distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster ► The Guardian ► 4/21/25

How musicians are sabotaging AI with inaudible tricks ► 4CA ► 4/21/25

The Studio Ghibli AI art trend might be fun – but it’s also a privacy nightmare ► On Focus ► 4/20/25

Artists push back against AI dolls with their own creations ► BBC ► 4/19/25

Fact-checking if AI ruins your writing ability► Calgary Journal ► 4/19/25

What’s so independent about these Minnesota bookstores? Plenty. ► The Minnesota Star Tribune ► 4/19/25

“Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us”: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence? ► The Guardian ► 4/19/25

Books, burnout and the business of reading ► The Daily Californian ► 4/18/25

The irresistible allure of books about bookstores ► Publishers Weekly ► 4/18/2

If you use AI to write me that note, don’t expect me to read it. ► Fast Company ► 4/18/25

News/Media Alliance hails court ruling on Google Ad tech monopoly ► News/Media Alliance ► 4/17/25

Amazon’s AI recommends: Antisemitism ► ADL ► 4/17/25

Meta says books used to train its LLMs are “worthless” ► BookRiot ► 4/16/25

Creators are losing the AI copyright battle. We have to keep fighting. ► The Hollywood Reporter ► 4/16/25

AI threatens creators’ livelihoods, experts say ► Publishers Weekly ► 4/16/25

Challenging “publish or perish” culture – researchers call for overhaul of academic publishing ► Phys.org ► 4.16.25

6 things I learned from un-trunking my novels and getting them published ► Writers Digest ► 4/9/25 (yes, out of order, but I don’t want folks to miss this one - I proofed her book!)

Taking humor writing seriously ► SFWA ► 4/15/25

Publishing platform Medium says it’s sticking with DEI ► TechCrunch ► 4/15/25

AI action figures flood social media (accessories included) ► The New York Times ► 4/15/25

A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers—and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data ► The Conversation ► 4/15/25

AI is dead ► Texas Observer ► 4/15/25

Meta AI lawsuit: US publishers file amicus brief ► Publishing Perspectives ► 4/14/25

AI is dead ► Texas Observer ► 4/15/25

Tribes, North Dakota partner to update 30-year-old textbooks on Native history ► North Dakota Monitor ► 4/14/25

How can you make time for book writing? ► Poynter ► 4/14/25

Tariffs aren’t targeting books, but economic chaos is having a chilling effect on N.L. publishers ► CBC ► 4/14/25

AI-generated action figures were all over social media. Then, artists took over with hand-drawn versions. ► NBC News ► 4/13/25

Poll finds Americans are largely disgusted by AI-generated news ► Futurism ► 4/13/25

How AI’s latest advancements could reshape creative professions ► The New Zealand Herald ► 4/13/25

The Loft Literary Center offers Indigenous, diverse-focused writing classes for zero cost ► Minnesota Daily ► 4/13/25

How a philosopher who criticized Trump and Musk turned out to be an AI experiment ► Decrypt ► 4/12/25

Studio Ghibli AI filter trend is “an insult to life itself,” yet another example of how human-made art is under attack ► North Texas Daily ► 4/13/25

Paying artists for AI art would be “cool,” says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ► The Decoder ► 4/13/25

“You can’t make a living writing books in Poland”: Royalty row erupts over bestseller’s earnings ► EuroNews ► 4/12/25

Saving the story of print, one Linotype at a time: Inside the Museum of Printing ► Editor & Publisher ► 4/12/25

AI can now create Ghibli art: a threat to creativity of just the next step? ► Japan Forward ► 4/12/25

AI and human creativity can totally coexist – if AI doesn’t end up eating the thing keeping it alive ► Hackernoon ► 4/12/25

A.I. my A.S. ► Ricochet ► 4/12/25

AI-generated images can exploit how your mind works – and here’s why they fool you and how to spot them ► The Telegraph ► 4/11/25

AI translations still inadequate ► The observer ► 4/11/25

Law professors side with authors battling Meta in AI copyright case ► TechCrunch ► 4/11/25

California creatives rally behind state AI rules to save their artwork ► SF Public Press ► 4/11/25

The publishing industry has a serious waste problem, and it needs to stop now ► LitHub ► 4/9/25

Politicians Assert U.S. Constitution mandates protecting creativity ► Publishers Weekly ► 4/9/25

Why publishers are pivoting to community as a new source of growth ► Digiday ► 4/8/25

The 10 most-challenged books in U.S. libraries have faced complaints in Canada, too ► CBC ► 4/8/25

Why CEOs should think twice before using AI to write messages ► Harvard Business Review ► 4/2025

Is AI truly creative? Study shows how visibility of process shapes perception ► Techxplore ► 4/7/25

“An overwhelmingly negative and deomoralizing force”: what it’s like working for a company that’s forcing AI on its developers ► Aftermath ► 4/7/25

Inventing truths: What Toni Morrison’s fiction taught me about writing memoir ► LitHub ► 4/7/25

News Media Publishers run coordinated ad campaign urging Washington to protext content from big tech and AI ► News Media Alliance ► 4/7/25

Digital artist share what it’s like to have his work “ruined by AI” ► My Modern Met ► 4/6/25

To use AI wisely, humans must summon morality ► Deccan Herald ► 4/5/25

Sask. mushroom pickers sound alarm on dangerously misleading AI-generated books ► CBC ► 4/5/25

Writers vs. AI: The current state of AI in content marketing ► InsideNova ► 4/4/25

Generative AI and copyrightability: report from the US Copyright Office ► Writer Beware ► 4/4/25

The artifact isn’t the art: Rethinking creativity in the age of AI ► Freethink ► 4/4/25

How will Trump’s tariffs affect books? ► BookRiot ► 4/4/25

Studio Ghibli-style controversy: Why the internet is divided over AI-generated art and what’s at stake ► Live Mint ► 4/4/25

Oxford experts warn of AI’s impact on human creativity ► Oxford Mail ► 4/4/25

Chimp relatives use humanlike grammar, study finds ► The Hill ► 4/3/25

Amazon Kindle’s new feature uses AI to generate recaps for books in a series ► TechCrunch ► 4/3/25

What AI anime memes tell us about the future of art and humanity ► The Verge ► 4/3/25

Generating your AI grave? Canva sheds technical writing staff after directing them to use artificial intelligence ► Startup Daily ► 4/3/25

Like reading? Reductress Book Club is here to make fun of you. ► LitHub ► 4/3/25

Using AI reduces your critical thinking skills, Microsoft study warns ► Live Science ► 4/3/25

“Romance novels teach empathy”: Abby Jimenez cooks up love stories ► PEN ► 4/3/25

“Meta has stolen books”: authors to protest in London against AI trained using “shadow library” ► The Guardian ► 4/3/25

How I realized AI was making me stupid – and what I do now ► Wall Street Journal ► 4/3/25

Creativity: protecting digital IP rights in the AI era ► Modern Diplomacy ► 4/3/25

When AI is the editor, consumer complaints are more likely to succeed ► Yale Insights ► 4/2/25

Scandal-hit creative writing website NaNoWriMo to close after 20 years ► The Guardian ► 4/2/25

Here’s how AI evolved from basic grammar rules to today’s generative AI fluency ► Forbes ► 4/2/25

AI in audiobooks: another slippery slope ► The Boar ► 4/2/25

Tim O’Reilly says Open AI stole his company’s paywalled book content ► Thurrott ► 4/2/25

Longtime writing community NaNoWriMo shuts down after AI drama ► Gizmodo ► 4/1/25

Can writers ever remember how to read for fun? ► LitHub ► 4/1/25

NaNoWriMo is shutting down ► LitHub ► 4/1/25

Sam Altman says 1 million people signed up for ChatGPT in just 60 minutes after the company launched its viral image-generation feature ► Fortune ► 4/1/25

How to navigate the publishing industry with social anxiety ► Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association ► 4/1/25

Brain implant translates thoughts to speech in an instant ► Nature ► 3/31/25

Seattle engineer’s Ghibli-style image goes viral, and sparks some backlash over AI art ► GeekWire ► 3/31/25

How can you promote your book at an event ► Springer Nature ► 3/31/25

Why Construction News is using AI to assist with our writing ► Construction News ► 3/31/25

AI possibly replacing writers in 10-20 years: Liu Cixin ► Global Times ► 3/30/25

How is the tech industry thinking about AI’s environmental impact? ► NHPR ► 3/30/25

Major studios are profiting from fake AI trailers while artists have to just sit back and watch ► Movieweb ► 3/29/25

AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting, and exploring the world? ► The Guardian ► 3/29/25

Bill Sniffin: My personal editor’s library is living on borrowed time ► Cowboy State Daily ► 3/29/25

“Nothing really matters anymore”: Fans upset over Studio Ghibli-style art ► NDTV World ► 3/29/25

Sarah Vine: AI is strangling the creative arts at birth ► Daily Mail ► 3/28/25

AI is writing the news, but who’s paying the price? ► Financial Express ► 3/28/25

You can now turn yourself into a Studio Ghibli-style character with AI, but should you? ► Images ► 3/28/25

ChatGPT’s viral Studio Ghibli-style images highlight AI copyright concerns ► AP ► 3/28/25

AI art heist? Can Blockchain save Studio Ghibli’s style? ► Forbes ► 3/28/25

Nielsen BookScan report: key insights 2024 ► Chytomo ► 3/28/25

OpenAI’s Studio Ghibli-inspired AI art provokes backlash across the internet ► Mashable ► 3/27/25

How Is Meta Getting Its Hands on Advance Digital Galleys to Train Its AI? ► LitHub ► 3/27/25

The Vanishing Art of Editing: Can AI Save the Future of Literature? ► Times of India ► 3/27/25

AI Is Transforming Peer Review – and Many Scientists Are Worried ► Nature ► 3/26/25

Bill Gates Says Only 3 Jobs Will Be Safe From AI (And It’s Bad News for Creatives) ► Creative Bloq ► 3/26/25

Judge Allows “New York Times” Copyright Case Against OpenAI To Go Forward ► NPR ► 3/26/25

Promote Your Book: Social Media Strategies for Authors ► Springer Nature ► 3/26/25

Iowa’s Book Ban Bill Blocked Again by Federal Judge ► Book Riot ► 3/26/25

Academic Publishing Is a Multibillion-Dollar Industry. It’s Not Always Good for Science ► Phys.org ► 3/25/25

Penguin Random House’s “Banned on the Run” Event: US$10,000 ► Publishing Perspectives ► 3/25/25

Richard Osman Urges Writers to “Have a Good Go” at Meta Over Breaches of Copyright ►The Guardian ► 3/25/25

Meta Says Copying Books was “Fair Use” in Authors’ AI Lawsuit ► Reuters ► 3/25/25

Machines Are Not Writers, NaNoWriMo. ► The Corsair ► 3/25/25

Academic Publishing: Multibillion-Dollar Industry Woes ► Mirage ► 3/25/25

Report Finds Creative Freelancers Hit By Loss of Work, Late Pay and AI ► Museums Association ► 3/25/25

9 KDP Alternatives for Self-Publishing Your Book ► Slashgear ► 3/24/25

Taylor & Francis to Use AI Translation Tools to Publish Books “Otherwise Unavailable in English” ► The Bookseller ► 3/25/25

Do Typos Fool AI Detectors? ► Medium ► 3/24/25

Will AI Kill the Publishing Industry? ► Verdict ► 3/24/25

AI Writing Is Now Widespread Online – New Research Explores Its Impact ► Forbes ► 3/24/25

Artists vs AI: Why Art Still Belongs to Us ► Epigram ► 3/22/25

Ironic: Maricopa ARTS Council Chooses AI-Generated Image Over Real Art ► In Maricopa.com ► 3/22/25

The Battle for Creativity: Why the Court’s AI Art Ruling is a Major Win for Human Innovation ► Black Engineer

“More Are Published Than Could Ever Succeed”: Are There Too Many Books? ► The Guardian ► 3/21/25

AI Can’t Generate an Artist’s Soulful Connection to the Audience ► The Tacoma Ledge ► 3/21/25

Academic Publishers Braced for Slowdown as Trump DEI Purge Bites ► Inside Higher Ed ► 3/21/25

The Literary Lynnch Pen: Why Writers Should Always Be Students ► The Oldham Era ► 3/21/25

Meta’s Massive AI Training Book Heist: What Authors Need To Know ► The Authors Guild ► 3/20/25

“Because I Believe in Hope”: Katee Robert on the Power of Romance Novels ► PEN ► 3/20/25

Search LibGen, the Pirated Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI ► The Atlantic ► 3/20/25

An Italian Newspaper Launched a Generative AI Experiment. It’s Not Going Well ► Poynter ► 3/20/25

Court Rules AI-Generated Art Does Not Qualify for Copyright Protection ► Social Media Today ► 3/19/25

The Language Habits Americans Are Embracing and Trying to Shed ► SD News ► 3/18/25

The Most Innovative Companies in Media and News for 2025 ► Fast Company ► 3/18/25

People Say They Prefer Stories Written by Humans Over AI-Generated Works, Yet New Study Suggests That’s Not Quite True ► The Conversation ► 3/18/25

Italian Newspaper Says It Has Published World’s First AI-Generated Edition ► The Guardian ► 3/18/15

Fewer Paperbacks, Higher Prices: What This Publishing Trend Means for Bookstores ► News Center Maine ► 3/17/25

Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo and More Than 400 Hollywood Names Urge Trump to Not Let AI Companies “Exploit” Copyrighted Works ► Variety ► 3/17/25

Hundreds of Actors and Hollywood Insiders Sign Open Letter Urging Government Not to Loosen Copyright Laws for AI ► CBS News ► 3/17/25

A Literary Evolution: How BookTok Is Transforming the World of Publishing ► Yorkshire Bylines ► 3/17/25

From Mississauga to Florida, School Book Bans Are Spurred by the Same Assumption: Books Corrupt Our Kids. It’s Completely Wrong ► Toronto Star ► 3/16/25

This Writer Set up a “Grammar Table” to Bring People Together Over a Love of Language ► CBC ► 3/15/25

How To Write a Book While Working Full-Time ► Gulf News ► 3/14/25

Translated Fiction: Why AI Should Never Replace Human Translators ► Verdict ► 3/14/25

London Book Fair 2025: Can AI Help Literature Go Global? ► News EU ► 3/13/25

Rediscovering Creativity in the Age of Generative AI ► Psychology Today ► 3/13/25

Dave Eggers on OpenAI’s New Creative Writing Bot: “A Cheap Party Trick” ► The San Francisco Standard ► 3/13/25

Adib Khorram Wants To Use the Might of Romance To Fight Censorship | Shelf Love ► PEN ► 3/13/25

ChatGPT Firm Reveals AI Model That Is “Good at Creative Writing” ► The Guardian ► 3/12/25

French Publishers and Authors File Lawsuit Against Meta in AI Case ► Reuters ► 3/12/25

Unvale Raises $1.8M To Grow Their AI-Free Social Platform for Creatives ► TYN Magazine ► 3/11/25

Protecting Artists’ Rights: What Responsible AI Means for the Creative Industries ► The Conversation ► 3/11/25

Why Writing Remains a Vital Skill in the Age of AI ► Forbes ► 3/11/25

Local Gannett-Owned Websites Are Using AI To Help Write Articles ► WGBH ► 3/11/25

The Psychological Impact of AI Detectors on Writers ► BBN Times ► 3/10/25

AI Writing Fingerprints: Identify (& Fix) AI-Generated Content ► Search Engine Journal ► 3/10/25

AI Can Steal Your Voice, and There’s Not Much You Can Do About It ► NBC News ► 3/10/25

The Case for Using Your Brain – Even If AI Can Think For You ► Vox ► 3/10/25

The Em Dash Debate: Should AI Influence Our Writing Style? ► London Daily News ► 3/10/25

Artificial Intelligence, Art and the Problem of Alienation ► Daily Sabah ► 3/8/25

AI’s Gender Bias Is Even Worse Than Reality ► Creative Bloq ► 3/8/25

Health Expert Warns of Leaning Too Heavily on AI for Social Connections ► Tech Crunch ► 3/7/25

We’re Locked Inside a Creative Bubble, Will AI Burst It or Throw Away the Key? ► MSN ► 3/7/25

This New AI Is Kind of Like a Journal That Writes Itself ► 6 AM City ► 3/7/25

Global Voices’ Policy on AI ► Global Voices ► 3/7/25

A Long-Shot Bet To Bypass the Middlemen of Social Media ► The New York Times ► 3/6/25

Your Writing Has a Fingerprint – And This Cutting Edge AI Model Can Identify It ► Hackernoon ► 3/6/25

Sale of Ellen Raskin Estate Reveals Unpublished “Westing Game” Sequel ► Publishers Weekly ► 3/6/25

Will AI Replace Writers? Here’s Why It’s Not Happening Anytime Soon ► Forbes ► 3/3/25

Graphic Designer Shares Why AI Has “Ruined” Experience ► Newsweek ► 3/3/25

Life Experience: I Let AI Run My Life for a Week ► The Straits Times ► 3/3/25

Generative AI Is Most Useful For Things We Care About the Least ► Japan Today ► 3/2/25

The New York Times Embraces AI in its Newsroom ► DrivingEco ► 3/2/25

Google’s AI Previews Erode the internet, US Edtech Company Says in Lawsuit ► CyprusMail ► 3/2/25

“The Future is Analog” is a Reminder That We Need Human Interaction Amid All This AI ► Substack ► 3/1/25

Sexy Books Are Saving the Publishing Industry ► Substack ► 3/1/25

Publishers Plan for a New Mass Market Paperback Winnowing ► Publishers Weekly ► 2/26/25

Silent Albums and Pirated Books: The AI Copyright Showdown ► Forbes ► 2/26/25

Lawsuit Claims Google’s AI Summaries Will Destroy the Future of Publishing ► AllWork ► 2/25/25

Spotify’s AI Audiobook Move Sparks Debate in Publishing ► DigWatch ► 2/23/25

Here's How Four Major Newsrooms Are Using AI ► Lifehacker ► 2/21/25

AI vs a Chimes Staffer: A Professional Writing Test ► The Chimes ► 2/19/25

Does AI Belong in Creative Spaces? The Brutalist Sparks Debate ► The Gauntlet ► 2/18/25

The New York Times Adopts AI Tools in the Newsroom ► The Verge ► 2/17/25

AI Adoption Surges: 60% of Americans Use AI Weekly, Chat GPT Leads With 77.97% Usage ► Digital Information World ► 2/16/25

From Courtroom to Canvas: How an AI Copyright Case Could Shape the First Major AI Art Auction ► IP Watchdog ► 2/13/25

News/Media Alliance Announces Industry Lawsuit Against AI Content Theft ► Editor and Publisher ► 2/13/25

AI Isn't A Threat - Unless It Learns Creativity, Researchers Say ► The Educator ► 2/12/25

How Authors Against Book Bans Helped Defeat Attempted Library Censorship in Florida ► LitHub ► 2/12/25

Rise of the Machines: How Illustrators Can Avoid Being Replaced by AI ► Creative Boom ► 2/11/25

Why You Shouldn't Let AI Write Your Emails ► Time ► 2/11/25

Macmillan's Jon Yaged on Book Banning: "It Stigmatizes Reading" ► Publishing Perspectives ► 2/10/25

Colorado Bill to Curb School Library Book Challenges Clears First Legislative Hurdle ► Chalkbeat ► 2/10/25

How Bookstores Change the World ► Current Affairs ► 2/10/25

Meta Used Pirated Books To Train its AI Models, and There Are Emails To Prove It ► TechSpot ► 2/8/25

Are You Worried About AI taking Human Jobs? ► The New York Times ► 2/7/25

AI-Written Books: a Gimmick or a Real Threat to Creatives? ► Verdict ► 2/7/25

Is AI Causing a Decline in Cognitive and Creative Skills? ► Unleash ► 2/5/25

When AI Makes Art Effortless, What's Left? ► Psychology Today ► 2/5/25

Servant or Master? Are AI Tools Changing the Way We Write? ► The Bookseller ► 2/5/25

Publishers, Authors Guild Sue State of Idaho Over Book Banning Law ► Publishers Weekly ► 2/4/25

What Publishing Can Do About Trump: Preserve the Independence of Our Bookstores and Libraries ► Lit Hub ► 2/4/25

AI-Generated Slop Is Already in Your Pubic Library ► 404 Media ► 2/4/25

AI and Copyrightability ► The National Law Review ► 2/3/25

Project 2025 and the Romance Genre ► The Book Prose ► 11/6/24

The Republicans' Project 2025 Is Disastrous For Books ► Lit Hub ► 11/6/24

Books Written Without AI Can Now Receive New ‘Human Authored’ Certification ► Gizmodo ► 1/30/25

Project 2025 and Its Threat to Free Expression ► PEN America ► 9/12/24